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Secret Crush: A Coward's First Brave Step 暗恋，胆小鬼勇敢的第一步
[The rating just came in, but it'll go up ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧] (Hello, fellow readers of The Cowardly Incantation! If you think this is a lot like that popular novel, that's understandable. I did take inspiration from it, but the story is definitely different. Give this struggling author a chance and read a little first, okay~) [No harem + not reborn + coming-of-age + Chinese high school + everyday campus life] A youthful, one-sided crush is a bittersweet candy for everyone. For cowards, even more so. Ch
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- 2 Ordinary People Like Us Need to Fall in Love Too 我们普通人也要谈恋爱 (New author, new novel) [No rebirth or transmigration] + [One female lead] + [High school campus] + [Sweet romance] + [Secret crush] A secret crush is a lonely expedition. Li Mubai, a withdrawn young man, struggles between silent longing and crushing insecurity. To him, love is both a luxury and a light just beyond his reach. Until the night before the college entrance exams, with the bright moon hanging overhead. The girl suddenly took his hand and lifted her clear eyes to his. “I know.” Her vo 32kReads9.4Score4.3k14d adds
- 3 Unrequited Love Is a Pantomime of Insecurity 暗恋，是一场自卑的默剧 (A new author and a new book! It has just received its first rating, and the score will go up!) [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no stock trading, just authentic everyday Chinese school life] People say youth is rose-colored, but that's only true for the protagonists. As an NPC in Earth Online, Ye Zhouhong's youth has no dramatic plot twists, only a secret crush he doesn't dare to speak aloud. He doesn't dare get close. He doesn't dare confess. He thinks this silent drama will end with 169.4kReads9.3Score20.2k14d adds
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A Secret Crush, a Solitary Performance With No Ending 暗恋这场没有结局的独角戏
[Secret love with a tragic ending] [Insecure male lead] In their second year of high school, when Xu Yuanzhou’s life was at its darkest, An Yining was like a ray of light, bringing a little brightness to his gloomy world. From then on, loving An Yining became Xu Yuanzhou’s biggest secret. As insecure as Xu Yuanzhou was, perhaps the craziest thing he did in his entire youth was fight with his deskmate for An Yining’s sake, only for his classmates to mistakenly think he liked another girl. The rum
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- 5 The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事 Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing 79.3kReads9.7Score13.8k14d adds
- 6 Hello, Summer: She Is My Light and Salvation 你好夏天【她是光是救赎】 [Super-short story] + [Secret crush] + [Secret crush comes true] Happy ending Gu Nanfeng was a bar singer when a talent-show director spotted him. He joined a competition and made his debut as its champion. His first original song, “Hello, Summer,” quickly took the country by storm, making him a hot topic across social media. In an age dominated by new media, Xia Meng stayed true to her childhood dream and pursued the print media she loved, becoming a magazine editor. By chance, she was assigned 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 This Grand, Silent Drama of Unrequited Love 暗恋这场声势浩大的哑剧 A bittersweet youthful school romance about unrequited love from popular author Meng Zhiwan, and a companion novel to The Sad Little Thing Called a Secret Crush and The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain. This one-sided love story is a silent play with just one actor: me. Also known as The Moment I Speak, My Voice Disappears. Lonely girl Chen Ji VS sunny boy Lin Jingye. I carefully cherished you, and you became the only spring I ever had in my life. “Chen Ji, may you always be safe and well, overcome 20.9kReads9.6Score4.2k14d adds
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Meeting You Was Like Stepping Into the Sun 遇你如光明媚
At seventeen, our first flutter of love bloomed on April Fool’s Day. By twenty-four, we had an entire garden. [Bright, bold science whiz heroine × aloof athlete and academic ace hero] A love between equals Bickering couple: [Fiery heroine’s best friend × playboy hero’s best buddy] Sparks fly One glance across the sports field at seventeen, One “I do” at their wedding at twenty-four. An entire youth lies between those moments, and every part of it is filled with each other. Open this bo
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Escape the Rainy Season 【逃离梅雨季】
[Cool on the Outside, Resilient Within x Bright and Flirtatious] Bittersweet Small-Town Romance | Slow-Burn Healing | Staying as a Guest | Ensemble Cast They first met during the torrential plum rains. Before Cheng Qinglang could get a good look at the person in front of him, Xu Lai's clean, cool scent of rushes had already captured his heart. As if guided by fate, the next day he followed his father to Yuhe Village, and stepped into Xu Lai's life... The red thread of fate was tightly tied aroun
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A Coward's 1,001st Confession 胆小鬼的一千零一次表白
[Not reborn, no System, high school setting, youthful literature, a story of being saved, personal growth, no harem] Cowards don't dare to confess their feelings, and they're afraid of being confessed to as well. If your confession is rejected, you'll be mocked and condemned by everyone. If you reject someone's confession, you'll lose a friend and go your separate ways. Can't it work out? The answer is no, because success doesn't like cowards! But what if one coward likes another? This isn't a l
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A Summer Too Lovely to Hide 难藏夏日
[The print edition is now available] In her senior year of high school, Yun Xiang was brought home by Cheng Xiao, one of her father's old comrades. Cheng Xiao had a son, a cocky, arrogant guy who loved looking down his nose at people. But he was good at school and great at video games. The first time Yun Xiang met Cheng Che, he stood on the stairs to the second floor and coldly laid down the rules. “Don’t come near me, don’t look at me, don’t tell anyone at school you know me, and don’t touch an
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I Had a Crush on the Campus Heartthrob for a Year, but the Whole Internet Shipped the Wrong Couple. After He Overheard Me Crying, He Spoiled Me Relentlessly 暗恋校草一年全网磕错CP，他偷听我哭后强势偏爱
I Had a Crush on the School Hottie for a Year, but the Whole Internet Shipped the Wrong Couple. After He Overheard Me Crying, He Spoiled Me Relentlessly
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- 13 I Saw My Childhood Friend Carry His Girlfriend Up a Mountain, So I Deleted Every Way to Contact Me 目睹竹马背女友爬山，我直接注销所有联系方式 I Saw My Childhood Friend Carry His Girlfriend Up a Mountain, So I Deleted All My Contact Information 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 He Got Engaged in a Blaze of Glory, Never Knowing I’d Waited for Him in Silence for Three Years 他风光订婚，不知我默默等他三年 The karaoke room was so dim, it matched the gloom in her heart. Jian Chu smiled as she handed the microphone to Jiang Mochuan. Wen Xun sat in the farthest corner, gripping her cup until her fingers turned white. The music began: “The Moon Represents My Heart.” She had hummed that song all through middle school. Night after night, she buried her face in her pillow and sang it over and over, his face filling her thoughts. She thought it was a secret only she knew. But now he was singing it to anot 1.7kReads—Score11514d adds
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A Crush That’s Lost Its Sensitivity 脱敏暗恋
[High School: Her Secret Crush] [Mutual Pining] [College: He Pursues Her] [Angst Before Sweetness] [Both Each Other's First and Only] [Slow Burn] In high school, Chen Jingxiao was dazzling and unruly, the center of attention. He effortlessly kept his admirers at arm's length. Xiang Yujia was sensitive and reserved. She hid her awkward crush and decided to toughen herself up, staying by his side under the guise of friendship. Until her painfully embarrassing feelings were accidentally exposed. A
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Because It’s You, I Don’t Want to Let Go 因为是你，不想放手
When Shu Wennning was seven, her parents died in an accident, and the Xie family took her in. After arriving at the Xie home, Shu Wennning went to play alone in the courtyard and nearly got lost. By a small fishpond, she spotted a chubby, fair-skinned boy who was very handsome. Shu Wennning smiled sweetly and called out, “Big Brother, what are you doing here?” Xie Yubai looked up at the cute, chubby-cheeked girl before him. “I’m looking at the goldfish Dad just bought me.” Six months after movin
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After the Cicadas Sing Comes the Plum Rain 蝉鸣过后是梅雨
[Ensemble Cast at School | Slow-Burn Bittersweet Romance | Fated Bond | Gentle Girl, Troubled Boy | Realistic | Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Xia Shanshan's red-lacquered bicycle was stolen. She crouched beneath a camphor tree and cried. On the third floor, someone folded her orange candy wrapper in half, then in half again. Later, she met Fu Siyun. The boy leaned against the wall, looking carefree as he teased her softly: “Are you afraid of me, senior?” She ran from him for three y
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What, Still Feeling Shy? 怎么，还不好意思了？
Secret campus crush | Mutual misunderstandings | A touch of bittersweet longing | Reunion after years apart | Happy ending When we were young, Chen Yu hid all the affection he felt for me. He used Truth or Dare to get closer, stayed up late trying to grow a pink-and-white Christmas tree, and wrote down all the tenderness he couldn't bring himself to say on scraps of paper. After three years without contact, we met again. He rode his bike to take me to the alley entrance, then teased me with a sm
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- 19 Waiting for a Midsummer 等一场盛夏 Print edition signed* * Xia Shi met Qi You when she was sixteen. The young man was dejected yet proud, carefree and unruly. He had a stunning face and an air of roguish nonchalance, as though he were just passing through life for fun. Countless girls liked him, but he was never interested and never gave any of them a second glance. And she was certainly not the kind of girl he would like. A stickler for rules, dull and boring. They should never have had anything to do with each other, until she 59.9kReads9.5Score10k14d adds
- 20 When My Secret Crush Was Found Out 当暗恋被发现后 Shen Zhiwei’s secret crush was made public, and in a panic, she pulled the person she liked into a corner. After that, things spiraled out of control. Little by little, she began to realize that her crush seemed to… like her too. People say having a secret crush is painful. But she was lucky: while she liked him, he liked her too. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
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President Lu Has Secretly Loved You for Years, and the Sweetness Is Skyrocketing 陆总暗恋你多年，甜度疯涨
(Mutual crushes + sweet romance + both leads’ first love + extra sweet) One exam, one glance, a love that lasted a lifetime. Ye Yixing’s gaze followed that boy, and so did her entire youth. After graduating from college, she went alone to the city where he lived. For two years, she wandered its streets and alleys, hoping to run into him just once. But when they meet again, he’s the impeccably dressed Mr. Lu, while she’s just an insignificant office worker. When she hears he already has someon
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- 22 The Last Roll of Film 最后一卷胶片 [School romance | Secret crush | BE] Have you ever had a secret crush on someone? The kind where he sits in front of you, just forty centimeters away, but you have to rehearse saying his name a hundred times in your head. Shen Jinhe has had a crush on Jiang Zhi from the age of thirteen to twenty-five, twelve years in all. She saves every sticky note he writes and every piece of candy he gives her. When he turns around, she pretends to be looking at the blackboard; when he smiles, her heart races 4.3kReads—Score18714d adds
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Candy with a Tangy Bite 糖果偏酸
(The main story is complete.) The domineering, impossibly cool school bully vs. the beautiful, strong-willed, wounded little bookworm. School life, healing, and mutual secret crushes. Chutang was being bullied at school. The day she met Jihuai was the start of autumn. She was sixteen that year. Jihuai saved her, perhaps because he felt sorry for her. “You don't need to stick your nose into my business.” “Hey, I'm the one who helped you.” Desperate for a meal, Chutang shamelessly followed Jihu
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Confession Mix-Up! I Flirted with My Brooding Childhood Friend by Mistake, and He Went Crazy 告白乌龙！错撩阴湿竹马后他疯了
[Rivals use an alt account to flirt with me + a green-tea older brother + online romance turns real + flirting with the wrong person exposes their identity + sweet campus romance] Xu Youning has had three mortal enemies in this life: Shen Shiji, Shen Shiji, and still Shen Shiji! He stole her top ranking, tugged her braids, and snatched away the drink she was offering. This grudge is irreconcilable. Then she nearly drowned and was rescued. She mistakenly thought it was the passing senior Wen. T
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Painting His Likeness 绘出他的模样
[Campus Light Fantasy | Mutual Secret Crush (?) | Ensemble Cast | Beloved Little Sunshine | Lighthearted Comedy | Zero-Dimensional | Dual Personality] Everyone ships Rong Hui and Su Qingye, and the rumor has spread far and wide. No matter how her friends tease and try to set them up, Rong Hui always brushes it off and clarifies: I’ve never liked Su Qingye! No one knows that Su Qingye is hiding a second personality, A Qing. A Qing was born from Rong Hui’s childhood imagination. He broke throu
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- 26 An Oxygenless Dream 无氧梦 Sensitive and gentle × cool and aloof, with hidden contrasts [Mutual devotion + healing + secret campus crush] Tian Cheng thinks the most beautiful sunset was the one on the day she happened to meet Jiang Lin. On Route 38. 2.2kReads8.5Score26014d adds
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Confession and Farewell 告白与告别
Dear Zhou You, I hope this letter finds you well. These words are all the thoughts of you that have filled my days and nights. It is a confession two years overdue, and a farewell that has lasted two years.
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My Beautiful Deskmate Always Pinches Me: From Fighting Back to Falling for Her 美女同桌总掐我，从抵抗到真香
[School life] [Deskmates] [Ensemble cast] [Based on real events] There are no melodramatic, hackneyed plots here, nor any characters deliberately designed to win you over. You're free to like or dislike anyone. This novel wasn't written for cheap thrills; it's a true story from the past, and I'm only the narrator of time. If you're willing to take a little time to savor this gently told story, that would be my greatest honor. This story begins with Chen Xi and Yuan Meng as middle school deskmate
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Winter's Evening Snow 冬日暮雪
[Mutual Secret Crush] [Sweet Youthful Romance] [Matchmaking Assist] [Reunion After Years Apart] [Meeting at the Summit] On the day she transferred schools, she stood at the classroom door wrapped in a chill, like a wildflower bent beneath wind and snow, until her eyes met Zhang Xu's. His gaze was so clear, brimming with the unique passion and sincerity of youth, like the first ray of sunlight breaking through the clouds after a long spell of gloom. It fell straight onto her heart, veiled in fros
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Her Heart's Door Is Hard to Open 她心门难开
[Happy Ending + Both Pure + Light Ensemble Cast + School Days to City Life + He Pursues Her + 1v1 + Bittersweet Push and Pull + No Evil Female Supporting Characters + No Catfighting Between Women] School Days: [Smiling, Hardhearted Girl Who Loves to Eat x Cold-Faced, Pure and Gentle Boy] City Life: [Hardworking English Translator x Brooding, Obsessive Aircraft Engineer] Unlike most passionate youth romances, their story began in the dead of winter. * Fang Yu's affection was a gentle, carefully l
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The Top Student Pretends to Be Weak to Snag a Marriage, but His Tough Girl Bride Takes the Internet by Storm 学霸装弱骗婚，太妹娇妻飒疯全网
A wealthy young master and academic ace × a Southeast Asian Chinese tycoon’s daughter, a sassy queen! Playing dumb to outsmart the other + turning the tables + bickering couple + mutual crush + from campus to wedding bells The longest road Qin Sihuang has ever walked is the one set out for her by Pan Zhanchen! Who could have guessed that the gentle, high-achieving student whom tycoon heiress Qin Sihuang kissed and tackled first was actually a top-tier schemer with a wicked mind? She was haughty
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The Crush Hidden in an Eraser 藏在橡皮里的喜欢
The most moving part of youth has never been a grand declaration of love. It’s the affection hidden in all the little details. If you’ve ever had a crush on someone, you’ll understand all the sweetness and bittersweet ache in A Crush That Tastes Like Lemon Soda. There’s no golden finger and no melodramatic misunderstandings, just an ordinary girl and the top student in her year, whose seven-year journey from a crushed eraser brings them slowly closer, quietly falling for each other until their l
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The Stubborn Childhood Friend: Brother Lu Was the One Who Fell First 嘴硬青梅：是陆哥他先动的心
[A new author and a new novel. Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no one reborn.] [Both leads are inexperienced in love; one-on-one romance, a little angst and lots of sweetness, with a focus on everyday life.] [Everyday life, Chinese-style school setting.] When Lin Jing starts at Experimental Middle School, she has two wishes. First, she hopes no one finds out that the aloof heartthrob Lin Yi is her older brother! Second, she wants to stay far away from Lu Yun. She manages to keep her fir
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The Riverside Scene of Muling 穆棱上河图
The Muling River is an important river in eastern Heilongjiang and the largest tributary on the left bank of the Ussuri River. It runs for 834 kilometers and drains an area of 18,427 square kilometers, passing through Muling City, Jixi City, Jidong County, Mishan City, and Hulin City. Locals call it the “Mother River.” I was fortunate enough to live there until I came of age. I left as an adult and have never been back. Some memories of people and things from those days are still vivid, and ther
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No Answer from the Arctic 北极没有回音
At seventeen, Shen Yu lent Shen Yun a set of physics notes. Everything that came afterward began with that neat handwriting on the page. Strawberry milk tea, fingers interlaced beneath a streetlamp, and a New Year's note that read, “I'll spend it with you.” He said he'd take her to West Lake after the college entrance exams. When you're young, you make promises believing you'll be able to keep them. Later, he disappeared, sending only one long message in the middle of the night. It took Shen Yun
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Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心
Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he
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So What If He's the Campus Heartthrob? I Woke Up and Stopped Chasing Him 校草又怎样，恋爱脑清醒后不追了
[Devoted to each other + one-on-one romance + school life + coming of age + groveling after losing her] Gu Yitang had a dream that wasn't quite a nightmare. In it, she married the boy she had always loved, her childhood friend. Then the nightmare began. The life that followed wasn't what she had imagined, and she was plunged into endless panic. So she did everything she could to save herself, determined not to repeat the dream's mistakes. She stopped orbiting Xia Zhihe and began to step outside
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A Heartthrob Takes Over His Body, and the Timid Doormat Takes the Whole School by Storm 被男神魂穿，软糯受气包飒翻全校
The refined, scheming crown prince VS the soft, timid little bunny with an inferiority complex Healing | Unrequited Love Comes True | Soul Transmigration | Reborn and Pursuing His Wife Xie Yanci opens his eyes and finds that he has transmigrated into someone else’s body! He has ended up in the body of Song Qiwan, a girl who lets everyone walk all over her. The girl clutches a diary filled with his name as her bullies pin her down in the restroom and pour dirty water over her head. The school’s
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The Boy I Thought Was My Little Brother 那个我以为是弟弟的男孩子
I met him through his older sister, who was my deskmate. He was a year below me. Since he and three of his classmates rented rooms in my house, we were always hanging out together. I thought we were just friends, or maybe even like siblings. After all, I thought of him as my deskmate’s little brother, and as my own little brother too. The truth was, we had fallen for each other while spending all that time together. Sadly, I only dared to flirt and never dared to say it out loud. He was a year a
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- 40 The Transformation of Youth 青春岁月的蜕变 [School Days × Online Romance × Secret Crush × Slow-Burn Love × Healing] Online, A pure romance, back when they were sixteen. They met in a virtual world, young and innocent. “Do you have a boyfriend?” “Is that all you wanted to ask? So you’ve been waiting for me to log on every day?” “Yes. Answer me!” “No.” “Then will you be my girlfriend?” “⊙﹏⊙ Are you sure you didn’t send that to the wrong person?” “I’m sure. Will you be my girlfriend?” “Uh...” “Wifey! ◕‿◕” “⊙﹏⊙ Who’s your wifey? Don’t call 79Reads8.6Score—14d adds
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The Waves Trust the Clouds’ Whiteness 浪花信任云的白
Two souls fall into a campus dream; reunited on a Middle Eastern battlefield | Doctors Without Borders × frontier defense hero | unhinged yet restrained, healing regret | sweet, bittersweet tension | rekindled romance | devoted to each other, happy ending A three-day romance in their youth, followed by twelve years apart across mountains and seas · Mature adults wearing the guise of high schoolers, falling into the most heart-wrenching romance in a dream · Each other's cure and salvation; a god
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A Bittersweet Campus Romance 校园苦涩爱情
This is a campus romance about a boy and a girl whose misunderstandings lead them from dislike to love, and eventually to a bitter breakup. It reminds us that sometimes, once you miss your chance, you miss it for a lifetime. Treasure everything you have now.
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The Lemon Rule 柠檬守则
[Vibrant, wealthy young lady VS devoted, loyal puppy-like man] School life + older woman/younger man romance + healing + childhood friends + reunion + mutual pining becomes love An Suisui was an ordinary first-year student at Suiwan High School. She thought the high school life ahead of her would be uneventful and ordinary, but then she ran into Sheng Chaojin, her "little childhood friend," whom she hadn't seen in years. To everyone else, he seemed like a gentle, kind, untouchable campus heartth
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